ABSTRACT
An authoritative and indispensable guide to disability and media, this thoughtfully curated collection features varied and provocative contributions from distinguished scholars globally, alongside next-generation research leaders.
Disability and media has emerged as a dynamic and exciting area of contemporary culture and social life. Media–– especially digital technology––play a vital role in disability transformations, with widespread implications for global societies and how we understand communications. This book addresses this development, from representation and audience through technologies, innovations and challenges of the field. Through the varied and global perspectives of leading researchers, writers, and practitioners, including many authors with lived experience of disability, it covers a wide range of traditional, emergent and future media forms and formats.
International in scope and orientation, The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media offers students and scholars alike a comprehensive survey of the intersections between disability studies and media studies
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Imagining and Representing Disability
chapter 2|12 pages
What’s It All Worth?
chapter 3|15 pages
Decolonizing the Dynamics of Media Power and Media Representation Between 1830 and 1930
chapter 5|8 pages
Still Playing It Safe
chapter 6|11 pages
Mental Distress, Romance and Gender in Contemporary Films
chapter 9|12 pages
The Spectacularization of Disability Sport
part II|2 pages
Audience, Participation and Making Media
chapter 13|9 pages
Producerly Disability Popular Culture
chapter 19|11 pages
Pages of Life
chapter 20|11 pages
How Do You Write That in Sign Language?
part III|2 pages
Media Technologies of Disability
chapter 25|10 pages
When Face-to-Face Is Screen-to-Screen
chapter 26|10 pages
Mobile Phones and Visual Impairment in South Africa
chapter 28|10 pages
Individuals with Physical Impairments as Life Hackers?
part IV|2 pages
Innovations, Challenges and Future Terrains of Transformation